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Jai Ganesh

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Cause Quotes - VI

Cause Quotes - VI

1. Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety. - Aesop

2. I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me. - Tom Hanks

3. As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy. - Al Gore

4. In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? - Humphry Davy

5. For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. - Ernest Hemingway

6. It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being. - Gottfried Leibniz

7. The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea 'cause how will I ever be a filmmaker. - Mel Gibson

8. I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature. - Gottfried Leibniz

9. In a just cause the weak will beat the strong. - Sophocles.

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